Lead Manufacturing Process Engineer

Overview

Lead manufacturing process design, development, setup, industrialization, validation, optimization, and continuous improvement for products and manufacturing processes. Provide hands-on technical leadership across vacuum furnaces, vacuum systems, brazing, machining, drilling, milling, process stability, productivity, quality, and manufacturing readiness.

What you'll do

• Lead manufacturing process design, development, setup, industrialization, and validation for new and existing products.
• Lead product and process change management, including implementation of applicable FMIs and maintenance of SOPs/Work Instructions, DMRs, DHRs, PFMEAs, process maps, and quality plans.
• Provide technical leadership for vacuum furnace, vacuum systems, brazing, machining, drilling, milling, and related manufacturing processes, including troubleshooting and process optimization.
• Lead equipment qualification, verification, validation, calibration, and manufacturing readiness activities.
• Analyze product and process quality trends, lead root cause investigations, and drive corrective and preventive actions for internal failures, supplier defects, and customer rejections.
• Maintain product BOMs, routings, labor hours, cost roll-ups, and related manufacturing data in Oracle.
• Partner with Finance and Operations to maintain product costs within established targets.
• Drive cycle-time reduction, process simplification, productivity improvement, waste elimination, and product/process cost-reduction initiatives.
• Lead and support New Product Introduction, product transfer, and VCP projects.
• Drive Lean manufacturing, Kaizen, and Poka-Yoke/error-proofing initiatives, including improvements to jigs, fixtures, tooling, and manufacturing processes.
• Lead manufacturing layout, process-flow design, and optimization to improve productivity, material flow, safety, and effective utilization of manufacturing space.
• Support the specification, selection, ordering, installation, and management of manufacturing tools, jigs, fixtures, equipment, and capital assets, ensuring appropriate traceability.
• Develop and maintain safe manufacturing processes, incorporating applicable safety requirements, assessments, and risk-control measures into equipment and process design.
• Collaborate with Production, Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Finance, and Operations teams to improve process stability, manufacturing capability, product quality, cost, and overall operational performance.

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in manufacturing/process engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience in manufacturing process development, process optimization, validation, and process control.
• Experience with vacuum furnace operations, vacuum systems, brazing processes, and related troubleshooting.
• Strong technical troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and problem-solving capabilities for complex manufacturing and process issues.
• Demonstrated experience driving corrective and preventive actions, process improvements, and manufacturing productivity initiatives.
• Experience with equipment qualification, verification, validation, and manufacturing readiness activities.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across Production, Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, and Operations teams.
• Strong experience working with multiple stakeholders is mandatory.
• Proven experience in managing teams effectively.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
• Established project management skills.

Nice to have

• Preferable experience in the healthcare industry with ISO 13485 certification.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru.
• Relocation assistance is provided.